Combined weapon and wire-cutter.



c. GORA.

COMBINED WEAPON AND WIRE CUTTER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 5,1918.

1,285,681. Patented Nov. 26,1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES eons,

O F ATHABASG A. ALBERTA, CANADA.

COMBINED WEAPON AND WIRE-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 5. 1918. Serial No. 243,371.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES GORA, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Athabasca, Province of Alberta, and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Weapons and Wire-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in weapons, and has as its principal object the provision of a weapon which may be used as a gun or knife with equal facility, combined with which is a wire cutter of novel design.

A further object is to provide a weapon of the type described which is of neat appearance, and comprised of few and simple parts which are not readily liable to become disordered.

A still further object is to provide a new and improved form of gun operating means of simple construction.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of'this disclosure, and in which Figure l is a side view showing an implement made in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a broken edge view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken through the handle and showing the wire cutter in a closed position.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 4--4 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary side elewing t e mechanism by which the gun is operated.

It will be obvious from inspection of the drawing that the implements are for close or hand-to-hand engagement, the same being comprised of a handle 10, having an open slot 12 formed between its side portions. At the upper end of the handle is an integrally formed extension of frame 14 f' cm which projects the gun barrel 15, provided with a fixed sight 16 as is usual.

Mounted in the recess formed in the frame 14 is a cylinder 18, rotatable upon the pin or spindle 17, and having attached at the rear a ratchet plate 19, the cylinder being formed with a plurality of openings adapted to carry cartridges 20 of the usual type which may be brought into alinement with the bore of the barrel 15.

The lock mechanism is located in a chammtendedber 22, rearward of the frame in which the cylinder 18 rotates at the upper end of the handle, and extending beyond the chamber 22, and also over a portion of the frame 14 is a rigid fixed knife blade 23, having cutting edges 24 on each side terminating in an acute point 25, the blade extending directly outward and in alinement with the handle element 10.

A cover plate 26 is fitted over the chamber 22, and held by screws or like securing means, engaging with the openings 27 so as to form a substantially dust proof chamber.

Rotatably mounted on the pin 28 fixed in the side wall of the chamber, is an angular lever 30, the front extending portion 31 of which terminates in a sharp point 32, operable within a recess 33, formed in the front wall of the chamber, the point being adapted to act as a hammer when detonating the cartridge 20, a stop shoulder 34 adjacent to the point being adapted to rest normally in a seat 35, formed in the casing of the chamber.

Also formed in this wall below the seat 35 is another recess 36 in which operates a dog 37, its point 38 being adapted to engage with the ratchet 19, whereby the cylinder is turned as the lever 30 is operated, the dog being pivoted to the lower end of the lever on a pin 39, below the pin 28, so that. as the hammer is raised the dog will actuate the cylinder into position to bring a new cartridge into register with the barrel 15.

This lever is normally pressed forward by a flat spring 40, secured in the chamber by a pin 41. Arranged substantially in alinement with the barrel 15 is a plunger 44 passing through the outer wall of the chamber. This plunger is retractable by a ring 45, fixed upon its extending end, while within the chamber, fixed upon the plunger, is a collar 46, normally pressed inwardly by the coiled compression spring 47.

Carried on the extreme inner end of the plunger 44 is a pawl 48, pivoted on a pin 51 and held in operative engagement by a flat bringing a new cartridge into position for operation.

Full action of the plunger causes the point of the pawl 48 to come out from the recess, permitting the hammer to be forced agamst the cartridge by action of the spring 40,

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the pawl turning on its pivot to reengage in the recess when the plunger is moved in.

Below the frame 14 is a fixed cutter or extended at an angle, and pivoted in the slot 12 of the handle, on the pin 56, is a lever 57 having a shear blade 58 formed on the art extendmg through a slot Iii, the longer operative end of the lever extending downward through the lower. end of the handle, and is normally pressed into operative position by a coiled compression spring 60, so that the shear blades 55 and 58 respectively are held in open position, and it will be obvious that when an article, as a strand of wire, is entered therebetween and the lever 57 is pressed inwardly, that the same will be sheared.

Rigidly secured in the uppermost end of the slot 12 is a relatively wide flat spring 62,

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engagmg with the outer edge of the lever 57, the spring having an inturned lower portion .63 terminating in a hook 64, which, due to the resiliency of the spring, is engageable within a recess 65, formed in the extreme bottom of the handle, thereby holding the ever in asubstantially closed position, as is shown in Fig. 3,.the'element 62 acting as a cover for the opening in the handle and also presenting a relativel broad surface for the hand when operating the lever 57. It will be clear from Fig. 3, that a pressure exerted by the palm of the hand against the back of the vertical shank of the flat spring 62, pressing the same against the lever 57 will tend to release the catch 64 to permit opening of the cuttin jaw. 58.

Having thus descri ed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 1. In an plement of the class described,

'the combination with a handle, a gun having a revolvin cylinder secured transversely'to a knife blade extending outward in alinement with said handle above said gun, and a wire cutter below said gun, said wire cutter having a blade pivotedin of the apparatus. 2.11 a gun, the combination with a barcylinder adapted to carry cartridges said barrel, a ratchet secured a lever pivoted in a chamber rearward of said ratchet, a lever pivoted'in said chamber, said lever having a hammer formed therewith and adapted to detonate a cartridge in said cylinder, a

weasel dog pivoted to said lever, said dog being engageable with said ratchet whereby said cylinder is rotated, a through the walls of said chamber, means for operating said plunger, means on said plunger for operating said lever whereby it may be retracted, and means for forcing said hammer forward.

In a gun, the combination with a handle, a barrel affixed thereto, and a revoluble cylinder adapted to carry cartridges adjacent to said barrel, of a chamber rearward of said cylinder, a ratchet plate secured at the rear of said cylinder, a lever pivoted in said chamber, a hammer formed with said lever adapted to make contact with cartridges in said cylinder, a dog pivoted to said lever opposite to said hammer, said do being engageable with said ratchet where inder may be rotated, a spring normally pressing said hammer forward, a plunger slidable through the walls of said chamber, means for operating said plunger, means for normallypressing said plunger forward, a pawl pivoted on the inner end of said plunger, said pawl bein engageable with a recess formed in said ever, whereby it may be retracted, and means permitt ng forward movement of said pawl so as to enter the mentioned recess.

4. In a gun operating mechanism, the combination with a handle, a chamber formed in the upper end thereof, a cartridge carrying cylinder rotatable in said chamber, and a barrel extending therefrom, of a ratchet secured to the end of said cylinder, a lever pivoted to rotate in said chamber, a hammer formed with said lever adapted to detonate cartridges held in said cylinder, a dog loosely pivoted to said lever on the opposite side of its ivotal point, said dog being engageable with said ratchet, a spring fixed in said chamber adapted to press said lever in one direction so as to cause said hammer to make contact with cartridges, a plunger slidable in said chamber, having a part exding 'therebeyond, a ring secured to said plunger whereby .it may be operated, a spring on said plunger forcing the same normally forward, a dog loosely pivoted on the inner end of said plunger, said dog having a part engageable within a recess formed in said lever whereby it may be retracted, and means permitting said dog to enter said recess without communicating motion to said lever.

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